Should We Drug Test All Police And Politicians?

[spathiphyllum]

What are your thoughts?

[dannyk13]

No.

[Mamyalynne]

Only if we can also drug test paper boys and girls,library assistants and gardeners.

[bhg481]

As a person who worked with the MoD I was subject to random drug tests; I don't see why police/MPs shouldn't be.

[spathiphyllum]

So you think it's fine for a politician to potentially be high on drugs when they decide or debate our lives?

Politicians and police have 'the upper hand' when it comes to who's word is stronger and the legal system.

Paperboys, gardeners and library assistance don't have a decisions or the ability to act over someones life on a day to day basis. Also, politicians and police officers need to retain memory and other vital functions to make their job fair for those who are not in those positions.

[Spicerack]

Drug test construction workers.

[spathiphyllum]

They don't have the ability to legally use 'reasonable force' when they decide someone is in 'a beach of the peace'

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, cancel my suggestions.

[dannyk13]

//So you think it's fine for a politician to potentially be high on drugs when they decide or debate our lives?//
Can you give any examples of this or is it your usual false news?

[spathiphyllum]

What if a police officer has raging aggression because he is a coke addict? How is it fair that he's on the streets with the public he's suppose to be protecting?

[Spicerack]

I was just talking about them this morning. I don't agree with them, personally. It's all a bit too Big Brotherish for my liking.

[dannyk13]

//What if a police officer has raging aggression because he is a coke addict?//
Again I ask have you any examples of this or is this more false news?

[spathiphyllum]

I'm not in the news section danny. I'm also using words like potentially. I thought someone with literacy or at least quiz and crossword knowledge of your calibre should realise a hypothetical discussion and one based off of current events.

[Spicerack]

Danny,

[dannyk13]

What I do recognise is when someone is posting rubbish.

[Old_Geezer]

How else are we going to find the good dealers ?

[spathiphyllum]

Danny then you should have a look at your actions and not contribute to that 'rubbish'. This rubbish has now become even more rubbish because you're arguing my right to this discussion with no authority.

[mushroom25]

from a home office circular issued in 2012:-

The 2003 Police Regulations have been amended and the Police (Amendment No 2) Regulations 2012 are now in force.

Regulation 19(1)(d) of the 2003 Regulations has been amended so that any serving police officer selected in accordance with a regime of routine random testing may be required to provide a sample. This replaces the existing provision for the Secretary of State to specify categories of officers who may be tested.

Where testing is carried out because the Chief Officer has reasonable cause to suspect, on the basis of intelligence, that the officer has used a controlled drug, the determination now allows testing to cover one other controlled drug or drug group in addition to the five categories of controlled drugs currently set out in the determinations.

[spathiphyllum]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/drugs-minister-victoria-atkins-hypocrisy-cannabis-paul-kenward-british-sugar-a8356056.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_politicians_who_have_acknowledged_cannabis_use

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/15/politicians-who-have-done-drugs-uk-drug-policy-commission-andrew-mitchell_n_1966391.html

[dannyk13]

OK to carry on your theme, What if a gardener gets high on drugs and rruns amok with a pair of garden shears.

[spathiphyllum]

Then they should be arrested?

Every day politicians decide over the fate of our lives. They negotiate our deals and they decide our trades. Why should someone who is high on drugs have this responsibility?

It's less "target the police and mps" and more, lets see who with responsibility is using it correctly.